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16 Cards in this Set
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basin
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On the African plateau, depressions which can span more than 600 miles across and as much as 5,000 feet deep
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Nile River
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The world's longest river, flowing more than 4,000 miles through Uganda and Sudan into Egypt and emptying into the Mediterranean Sea.
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rift valley(s)
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In East Africa, a long, thin valley created by the moving apart of the continental plates, stretching 4,000 miles from Jordan in SW Asia to Mozambique in S. Africa.
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Mount Kilimanjaro
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Africa's highest mountain, which is volcanic and located between Tanzania and Kenya alongside the Great Rift Valley
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Escarpment
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A steep slope with nearly a flat plateau on top, the Great Escarpment marks the edge of the continent's plateau in S. Africa.
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Sahara
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Meaning "desert" in Arabic, it is the world's largest desert, stretching 3,000 miles from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.
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aquifers
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Huge stores of underground water, which can be found up to 6,000 feet under the hottest, driest places.
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oasis
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Ground water, as from aquifers, that has risen to the surface and may sustain life and vegetation in the desert.
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Serengeti Plain (Serengeti National Park)
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A flat land with hard soil and few trees, covered in tropical grasslands throughout much of northern Tanzania. It contains some of the best tall grasses for grazing.
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canopy
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As it regards Africa's Congo basin and rainforest, it is the uppermost layer of branches which are a habitat for rainforest animals.
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Niger Delta
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At the mouth of the Niger River it contains most of Nigeria's oil.
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Desertification
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The spreading or shifting of the desert, as in Africa's Sahara.
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Sahel
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"Shore of the desert." It is a band of narrow grassland that runs east to west along the southern edge of the Sahara desert.
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Aswan High Dam
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Completed in 1970, it is used to control the flooding of the Nile.
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Lake Nassar
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An artifical lake created behind the Aswan Dam to hold the Nile's floodwaters; it stretches for nearly 300 miles and is shared by Egypt and Sudan.
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silt
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The rich sediment once deposited by the flooding Nile.
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